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strambang

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English

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Etymology

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From stram +‎ bang.

Adverb

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strambang (comparative more strambang, superlative most strambang)

  1. (dialect, West Country, obsolete) In a noisy, violent manner;[1] slambang.
    • 1837, Mary Reynolds Palmer, A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect‎[2], page 19:
      an way that a geed en sich a wap in the niddick that strambang a het es head agin the clovel, an made a bump in es brow.

References

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  1. ^ Wright, Joseph (1903) The English Dialect Dictionary‎[1], volume 4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 803
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